Word: inchon
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...have read scores of great historians whose descriptive passages will live forever as truth and literature, but never have I read anything more vividly beautiful than Frank Gibney's description of the taking of Wolmi Island [TIME, Sept. 25], beginning with "Inchon blazed against the darkening...
...make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion at Inchon...
Something Was Up. Then the whole aspect of the war changed suddenly and completely. Operation Chromite hit the North Koreans on Sept. 15. The Reds undoubtedly knew that something was up: carrier planes from Task Force 77 had been blasting Inchon, Seoul and Pyongyang for days. But the enemy, apparently, did not expect the blow to fall at Inchon; its 28-ft. tides made it the most difficult spot that MacArthur could have picked on the west coast...
...North Koreans must have felt abandoned by their Big Brothers in the Kremlin, but they fought savagely for Seoul while U.S. spearheads from the southeast raced to a junction with the 7th Infantry below Suwon. MacArthur announced the fall of Seoul eleven days after the Inchon landing (street fighting continued for three days more). While the Eighth Army, streaming out of the old perimeter in all directions, mopped up the liberated countryside, the South Koreans crossed the 38th parallel...
...Wednesday the avalanche began to roll. Late the night before a motorized column of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, barreling up from the south, had joined hands with the X Corps pushing down from the Inchon beachhead. "Complete breakthrough," reported Tokyo. On Thursday the enemy's main force abandoned Seoul, his trapped divisions in the southwest fell apart. On Friday, U.N. communiques called it a "rout." By week's end, the avalanche had run its thunderous course. North Korean organized resistance had ended, U.N. forces were mopping up isolated remnants, the first U.N. division had crossed the 38th...